Ushirozako, Hiroki http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7722-2205
Hasegawa, Tomohiko
Yamato, Yu
Yoshida, Go
Yasuda, Tatsuya
Banno, Tomohiro
Arima, Hideyuki
Oe, Shin
Mihara, Yuki
Yamada, Tomohiro
Ide, Koichiro
Watanabe, Yuh
Nakai, Keichi
Imada, Takaaki
Matsuyama, Yukihiro
Article History
Received: 14 June 2020
Revised: 25 August 2020
Accepted: 29 September 2020
First Online: 9 October 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Dr. Oe and Yamato belong to a donation-funded laboratory called the “Division of Geriatric Musculoskeletal Health.” Donations to this laboratory have been received from Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Inc.; Japan Medical Dynamic Marketing, Inc.; and the Meitoku Medical Institution Jyuzen Memorial Hospital. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest.
: All study participants provided informed consent, and the study design was approved by the appropriate ethics review board of Hamamatsu University School of Medicine.